email sender backend with angularjs frontend

Question

If I was to make a page that sends emails from clients, what should i use for backend. Of course, I mean what's the best & the easiest way?

I thought about slim php framework or similar stuff.

But can this be done easily with a node.js or any other cloud solutions?

Answer 1

thought about slim php framework

Is plain old PHP just too easy? It's between 1 and 5 lines of code without a framework depending on the security model.

can this be done easily with a node.js or any other cloud solutions?

Oh dear. You've been sitting too close to the sales people. node.js is not a "cloud solution". Yes node.js is quite capable of doing this, as is ASP, Java, Python, .NET, Perl, bash..... IMHO it's more difficult with node.js than with PHP - since you need to configure the node.js as a webserver and add libraries to support SMTP.

Answer 2

My recomendation is implement the mail funcionality out from client service.

If you have an API backend consumed in your front-end, you should implement at this API.If you dont have right now a backend, create a simple nodejs backend for that functionallity, this will provide you high scalability and security for you email account.

I dont recommend you to use php for that. Ofcurse that you can do it, but if you do "magic things" do them right.